HILLARY: BEWARE OF VOTING MACHINES MADE OF STEAL

New York Post ^ | 3/11/04 | Vincent Morris

[kattracks]

March 11, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton said yesterday voters in New York and elsewhere may not be able to trust future election results, charging the company that makes high-tech voting machines may skew results to help Republicans win.

[kattracks]

hillary has her political parties confused. It's the Dims that have made an art of stealing elections.

[Tall_Texan]

Translation: "We haven't figured out how to rig these things yet so it MUST be unfair!!"

[Tall_Texan]

Diebold CEO William O'Dell, who has raised money for Republicans, has said he will do everything he can to ensure President Bush is re-elected.

Our very own "Slick Willie". How cute!

[beaversmom]

What she means is that it's going to be harder for Dems to do any funny business with this way of voting. How are they going to get all those dead people to figure out these new machines?

[ThePythonicCow]

Alternative translation: "We have figured out how to rig these things, so time to setup the usual smoke screen - accuse you of whatever we are up to."

[kattracks]

She wants to bring back the HANGING CHADS!!!

[philetus]

If this is true, she will.

Johns Hopkins identified 328 security flaws in Diebolds system 26 are critical.

[ThePythonicCow]

Third translation: "1. Blame Republicans, 2. Repeat"

[Patriot_from_CA]

Contrary to all the concern about computerized voting, it will not be difficult to generate a comprehensive audit trail of an entire election using computers. This is something that could never be done with paper ballots. A computerized voting system could easily print out a minute-by-minute vote count throughout the entire election day in one precinct. With this kind of printout, many forms of vote fraud can be caught by comparing the number of votes with the record of voters signing in at the polls. For instance, if a candidate suddenly picks up 500 votes in one minute when only 40 voters signed in during the last 30 minutes, then someone corrupted the vote count in the computer system. If computerized voting systems are developed correctly, they can make vote fraud much more difficult.

[kattracks]

If computerized voting systems are developed correctly, they can make vote fraud much more difficult.

Which is probably why hillary! is bringing this up. Planting the seeds of doubt now that can be played upon later?

[beaversmom]

Hitlery only gets political advice from the best

[Salamander]

An accusation is often a subconscious confession....:)

[EGPWS]

Sen. Hillary Clinton said yesterday voters in New York and elsewhere may not be able to trust future election results, charging the company that makes high-tech voting machines may skew results to help Republicans win.

This is a joke thread, right?

Just how in the he!! can "hi-tech" voting machines keep the dead from voting???

[EGPWS]

Planting the seeds of doubt now that can be played upon later?

Gee's I guess I am a political cynic, for I have pondered the idea for quite some time.

Perhaps, cynicism isn't the word best suited for my mindset.

[AmericaUnited]

Actually, this is a VERY GOOD idea!

I don't trust the machines. Anyone could rig the setup, and we know 99.9% of the time which party that might be.

[ArmstedFragg]

With this kind of printout, many forms of vote fraud can be caught by comparing the number of votes with the record of voters signing in at the polls.

However, no amount of printing out and data screening can guarantee that the candidate you voted for is actually the candidate the machine recorded your vote for. A receipt doesn't help because there's no guarantee that the receipt matches what the machine tallied. Ultimately, the only way to assure that the vote the voter cast is what's really tallied is for the machine to print out a ballot, which the voter reviews, then seals in an envelope and deposits in a sealed box. Essentially, that would reduce the multi-thousand dollar machine to being a computerized version of a two dollar "X" stamp.

Of course, there WAS this system where you could see how you voted, confirm it was what you wanted, then deposit the ballot. It was simple, as close to idiot proof as anything operated by humans will ever be, and had a long and honored history of producing consistently repeatable results in elections all over the country for the last fifty years.

Unfortunately, Al Gore needed to invent some flaws in that system in an attempt to steal an election. Now that his supporters have gotten the new system they demanded, they're whining about it.... never happy.... what else is new?

[EGPWS]

Clinton said that unless electronic voting machines also produce a paper trail, GOP-leaning corporations might program the equipment to help Republicans steal elections.

The God fearing, pure as the wind, poor and destitute, Democrats of course can be left out of this statement.

After all, the likes of oh say, Micheal Moore, have proved themselves to the world that their institutional thinking would never allow such a heinous political endeavor!

[kattracks]

I think it's a good idea too, it just galls me that hillary!, or any Dim for that matter, would have the ba.... uh, nerve to bring this up.

[Lancey Howard]

This is yet another masterstroke by the Democrats.

The Democrats have every intention of rigging electronic voting machines if they can, wherever they can (duh, it's what Democrats DO), so they send Hillary out there to employ the old reliable "reverse psychology" gambit. "Better watch those Republicans!"

The Republicans should have beaten the Democrats to the punch on this, but they once again fell flat on their collective face. It's getting embarrassing.

Only last week the Democrats pulled off their first great masterstroke of the campaign season when they unleashed a "quick response" team of scumbag "9/11 family members" who had no shame whatsoever about disgracing the memories of their loved ones by faking "outrage" in order to promote a left-wing political agenda on behalf of Kerry. Where were the Republicans when all this was being planned, and how did they get caught flat-footed by such an obvious and predictable ruse??

The Republicans better get their heads out of their rear-ends, and they better do it fast. I want to see some aggressive action. I want to see some masterstrokes from the Republicans for a change. I want to see the GOP get down and dirty. If they want to beat the Democrats, they better be willing to go down, way, way down to the bottom of the foul stinking sewer and fight the Democrats where they live.